Recent content by Boraes

Hiya Everyone, Ok I noticed something odd yesterday evening. I usually run Corsair Vengenance 32Gb DDR3 2400Mhz RAM (4 x 8gb) bought as 2 x sets. I recently had a dead stick which under their life time warranty meant I had to send back two of the sticks as they were sold as a pair. Ok no...

Ok I've been looking around and doing the math - I'm 99% sure my best option given the reviews, specs and prices I'm going to get GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 XTREME WATERFORCE WB 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (GV-N2080AORUSX-WB-8GC) Block already installed on this and already OC'd, just reassures...

That’s what I thought. I was under the impression the whole point of the OC Scanner, though maybe not the best option would at least be safe. Rather ironic that I could manually OC it fine - that’ll teach me to be lazy 😆 The waterblock is the correct one (barrow RGB Titan/1080ti/70 block...

A fair question. Ok, well firstly the classic ‘burnt’ smell wafting strongly from inside the case and my PC wouldn’t wouldn’t power up upon my return from a smoke; this is using either the case switch or the button on the board. Performed a couple of power washes and got it to power up. No...

Hiya guys and girls! I was hoping for some advice to help me out in my dilemma. I had the above card for 2 years and it was awesome. A few months ago I upgraded to a custom loop and added a waterblock to the GPU and reaped the benefits as it really made a noticeable difference. I’ve used...

The worry I have with the Corsair kit is that it doesn't register my 1150 socket board so using the 'configuration tool' I can't get past the 2/3 screen. Would they in fact fit my board do you think? Yes I've read that you should only really have 1 x type of metal in a loop as they mixed...

Hi Everyone, So I'm luckily in the position where I'm able to upgrade from an AIO 360mm cooler to a custom loop kit. There's some pretty good deals out from a few manufacturers that all have pretty good reviews either generally as a company or on a specific kit. I'm hoping people can give...

The cooler is my existing one, only 2 years old, pump working, tested in a diff pc and no problems.

So I've replaced my mobo, CPU and case. Have built innumerable pc's for myself/friends/as pvt techie, but I've not be able to get the idle temp to go below 75c. Board - Gigabyte Z97x - Gaming 7 CPU - i7 -4790k Cooler - 360mm be quiet GPU - GTX 1080 ti Internal Case temp - 24-26c I'm not...

Has been considered, I'm borrowing a friends spare PSU sat/sunday to test, I have tested the pins on the psu cables with a multi meter and was getting the correct readings.

I had a power surge which killed my mobo (Gigabyte Z97X). So I tested my PSU/Board etc to confirm that it wasn't anything else. I’ve replaced my motherboard with the Asus Z97-A USB 3.1 revision 1.03 motherboard (Ebay). After initial rebuild with all my parts in I booted the PC and it began...

Hiya guys, I've always done things to my pcs in parts and when needed. Thanks to some AWESOME luck though I've had the opportunity this week to gut most of my older Alienware 51 Tower as I'm replacing the MB, CPU, Cooler, GPU and RAM. Before I go and get RAM, can anyone tell me which would...

Hmm I think I may of not been clear. The ribbon itself is fine. It's the connector that is physically ON the motherboard If you think of the paper in this pic as the mother board. http://imgur.com/a/TFw24

I've got a rather nice spec laptop which I got for far cheaper than I should have as I used to work for Arrow Electronics and kept an eye out for something like this for a while. There's no specific model or part number to the unit that I have so far been able to find. It's a custom unit from...

Ok now I know a decent network card will improve my net speed, not drastically, but enough to notice. I'm using the standard motherboard connection as I have no spare PCi-e slots as all three are being used by GfX cards (2 in Sli and 1 to run extra displays). Is there an External RJ45 to USB...